Elastography: Imaging the Elastic Attributes of Soft Tissues

Monday, November 4, 2002 4:00 p.m. Professor Jonathan Ophir Department of Radiology The University of Texas Medical School at Houston http://www.uth.tmc.edu/radiology http://www.uth.tmc.edu The mechanical attributes of soft tissues depend on their molecular building blocks (fat, collagen, etc.), on the microscopic and macroscopic structural organization of these blocks, and on the boundary conditions involved. In the…